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20152018
most citedA Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

200 citations · 366 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL201814 cited

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot (Short Version)

Iulian V. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain +15

We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capa…

cs.CV201785 cited

ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text

Rithesh Kumar, Jose Sotelo, Kundan Kumar +2

We present ObamaNet, the first architecture that generates both audio and synchronized photo-realistic lip-sync videos from any new text. Contrary to other published lip-sync appro…

cs.CL2017200 cited

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

Iulian V. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain +15

We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capa…

cs.NE20161 cited

Exact gradient updates in time independent of output size for the spherical loss family

Pascal Vincent, Alexandre de Brébisson, Xavier Bouthillier

An important class of problems involves training deep neural networks with sparse prediction targets of very high dimension D. These occur naturally in e.g. neural language models…

cs.LG2016

The Z-loss: a shift and scale invariant classification loss belonging to the Spherical Family

Alexandre de Brébisson, Pascal Vincent

Despite being the standard loss function to train multi-class neural networks, the log-softmax has two potential limitations. First, it involves computations that scale linearly wi…

cs.SC2016

Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions

The Theano Development Team, Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain +110

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Since its introduction, it has bee…